This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HAC.2ACE/1265.1 Message Board Post: There was a Hixe/Hix family in Goochland Co., VA on the 1746 tithe list, as well as three Davidson men (William, Edward and David Davidson). This Hix family (some branches of it, at least) eventually changed the spelling to "Hicks." It appears that the William Davidson in Goochland probably married one of the Hix women there, since there was a man with the unusual name of Goulder Hix in Goochland, and there a later man named Goulder Davidson in the Davidson family (apparent son of William Davidson). William Davidson appears to have moved to Henry Co., VA by 1777 (from Buckingham Co., VA, where some of William's relatives lived by 1761 when Buckingham was created from a part of Albemarle Co., VA), and a Richard Davidson also appeared in Henry Co., VA with William Davidson and Goulder Davidson in the early 1780s (note: there was also a man named Richard Hix in the above Hix family, and it appears that the name Richard had never been used before by this Davidson family......! so further eidence that William Davidson probably married a Hix women). Based on the above, I would not be surprised if some Hix/Hicks were in Buckingham Co., VA. I know that there were some Hix in "next-door" Cumberland Co., VA (which was created from a part of Goochland in 1749), and Cumberland is "next-door" to Buckingham. As I recall, this Hix family descended from a John Hix(e) and his wife Sarah Preston (I think it was). They had several children, and a Marmaduke Hix appeared on the above-mentioned Goochland tithe list, as did several other Hix men (including the above-mentioned Goulder Hix). I can e-mail you more on this Hix family if you think it is the one in which you are interested.